Russian investigators have said that genetic tests confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash last week.
Genetic tests conducted by Russian investigators confirmed that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash.
Russian investigators said on Sunday that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash last week. "According to their results, the identities of all 10 dead were established. They correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet," it said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin described the 23-24 June mutiny as a treacherous"stab in the back", but later met with Prigozhin in the Kremlin.READ |Western politicians and commentators have suggested, without presenting evidence, that Putin ordered Prigozhin to be killed as punishment for the mutiny, which also represented the biggest challenge to Putin's own rule since he came to power in 1999.
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